Teddy
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,331
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Teddy is aGermannoun. It means: vor allem als Kuschel- und Schlaftier verwendetes Stofftier für Kinder, dessen Form und Aussehen einem Bären nachgebildet ist Pronounced [ˈtɛdi]. Often confused with Terry and today.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Teddy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtɛdi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Teddy is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtɛdi]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,331 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Teddy, with forms such as "etddy", "tdedy", and "teddyy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Terry", "today", "trendy", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Teddy, spelled T-E-D-D-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vor allem als Kuschel- und Schlaftier verwendetes Stofftier für Kinder, dessen Form und Aussehen einem Bären nachgebildet ist
- 2(vor allem in einer Gruppe Gleichgesinnter auftretender) Jugendlicher, der sich im Aussehen und Lebensstil an die 1950er Jahre orientiert
- 3einem Schaffell ähnelnder Webpelz aus Flausch, Plüsch (mit langem Flor) oder dergleichen, der als Futter vor allem in Winterjacken und -mänteln sowie in Kinder- und Damenmänteln verarbeitet ist
- 4dicker Mantel aus Flausch, Plüsch oder dergleichen
- 5aus einem locker anliegenden Oberteil mit Trägern und angesetzten Höschen bestehende einteilige Damenunterwäsche (die auch als Nachtkleid getragen wird)
- 6dicklicher und weichlicher Mann, der sich leicht ungelenk benimmt
- 7männliche Person
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etddy,tdedy,teddyy,tedy,tedyd,tteddy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Teddy
Misspelling Variants of "Teddy"
Frequency rank: #11,331 in German
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